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News and Events in 2026
Events:
21-25 July: To deliver a presentation at an invited symposium at The 31st International Congress of Applied Psychology, Florence, Italy
18-21 August: To deliver a course on psychology and climate change at Hokkaido University, Japan
October 2026 (tentative): To deliver a workshop for the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
Special issues:
Ongoing - Environmental psychology: Trends and reflections
https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/328834/environmental-psychology-trends-and-reflections
Just completed - Advancing the interface between research and practice in sustainable development
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-839X.interface-research-practice
New publications in the year:
Normalising energy insecurity? Housing precarity, well-being, and constrained endurance in urban Hong Kong. Energy Strategy Reviews.
Nature connectedness in the family context: A systematic scoping review. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Hope amidst climate change: Psychometric properties and cross-cultural measurement invariance of the Climate Change Hope Scale among youth in Global South countries. PsyEcology.
Beyond WEIRD societies: Global social identifications across 45 countries and their socio-cultural and economic predictors. Political Psychology.
Curvilinear relationship between climate advocates’ word-deed consistency and public willingness to follow. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Measuring household energy insecurity in a dense, warm-climate city: Behavioural coping profiles and perceived financial burden in Hong Kong. Energy Policy.
Research trends in environmental psychology: A bibliometric analysis of peer-reviewed publications, 2004-2024. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Intergenerational pathway to nature connectedness. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
News and Events in 2025
3-4 October: Co-organized and delivered a keynote speech at the International Nature Connectedness and Environmental Education Conference. https://nature.owlhk.org/en/conference
August: Delivered a course on psychology and climate change at Hokkaido University, Japan.
June: Delivered a presentation titled “Global norm of government climate action and public support for domestic climate policies” at The International Conference on Environmental Psychology 2025 at Vilnius, Lithuania
April: Delivered an invited speech titled “Climate resilience: What psychology can offer” at the Psychology Day at the United States. https://psychologycoalitionun.org/
New publications in the year:
A new book on nature connectedness and outdoor education
https://bit.ly/4i3c28C
A letter about climate change psychology research
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102856
Papers on climate policy support
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000755
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102694
Papers on climate change anxiety
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102798
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102785
A review on determinants of clean energy technology adoption
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44359-025-00075-9
A review regarding culture and pro-environmental behavior
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101986
A review on climate change information seeking behavior
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102742
A paper on climate change conspiracy theories and the US-China conflicts
https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70015
Papers on resilience among Indigenous rice farmers
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103631
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2025.100711
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107111
A paper on coffee supply chain in the Phillipines
https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.70172
Meta-analyses on mental disorders following exposure to natural hazards
https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2025.2476809
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102690